Bring Cell Site To My Property

Each wireless carrier has a different process for qualifying properties because their coverage objectives are very unique. One carrier may have an interest in excellent coverage in a given area (stadium) but another carrier may just want outdoor coverage only in the same territory. One carrier may have an appetite to go through a tough zoning hearing to get the land use approval for their cell site, while another carrier may try to avoid a battle in the same neighborhood it is marketing its cell phone services to. For these, and many other technical reasons, it is best that you contact the carriers directly and provide them your property information so they can best judge how your site may fit in their engineering designs and coverage objectives.

This is a long and drawn out process. If your site was a “no brainer” location that complements their engineering designs, chances are they would have contacted you already. So do expect some degree of evaluation to take place regarding your property. It is unlikely that someone will contact you right away in response to your request. Be patient. If your property works for them, they will contact you back. If not, they will most likely ignore you. This is just how the carriers and tower companies operate.

Remember that your willingness as a property owner is not enough for a wireless carriers to place antennas on your rooftop or a tower on your property. There are many considerations, including engineering designs, zoning, land use, leasing rates, power, trenching, telco, microwave path designs, soil conditions, environmental impacts, proximity to flight paths both commercial aircrafts and helicopters, historic preservations, and the list goes on and on. Then if you pass the test, then how many of your neighbors could possibly be competitors to your property, which would drive your rent price down. Any uniqueness to your property would drive your wireless rent price up, including special locations (on hilltop overlooking a major freeway), tall building surrounded by lower buildings or business locations, zoning laws that prohibits other properties other than yours, and unwilling neighboring landlords. This is where special industry knowledge and negotiations skills come in. If wireless carriers contacted you for cell tower or rooftop antenna placements, contact us immediately as you will need to have industry insiders and experts on your side to get the maximum value for your property.

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Did You Know?

In 2016, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon reported a collective $1.2 billion in profit?Most popular cellular antennas are 6 feet to 8 feet tall?In the metropolitan area, 100 foot tall antenna locations are not good. But in rural areas, taller than 100 foot is almost always preferred?Wireless carriers almost exclusively contract out leasing, zoning, and construction work to outside companies?Higher frequencies don’t travel as far, or penetrate buildings as well as lower frequencies?5G technology is being experimented in 2017, test trials in 2018, and deployed in 2019?The purpose is to obtain higher throughput speeds on mobile handsets while having less dependencies on cell towers and rooftop cell sites.